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ANNUAL MEETING 2014

The International Quranic Studies Association will host its 2014 annual meeting November 21
24, beginning one day before the SBL/AAR conference in San Diego, California. The call for
papers is now closed.
The full schedule for the San Diego meeting is now available below. (Visitors should will have
access to the San Diego program book in early November)

The Quran: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture (IQSA)

11/21/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 23 B (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Panel 2: The Quran: Historical Context and Material Culture
Luke Treadwell, University of Oxford, Presiding
Wadad Kadi, Oriental Institute, Chicago
Abd al-Hamid al-Katibs Use of the Quran in His Legal, Theological, and Historical
Letters (30 min)
Francesca Leoni, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

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Mighty (S)words: Protective and Apotropaic Uses of the Quran (30 min)
Peter Webb, University of London
Inhabiting the Book: The Quran and Space in Mamluk Religious Architecture (30 min)
Robert Hoyland, Oriental Institute, Oxford
Writing the Quran in Stone: Use of the Muslim Scripture in Early Arabic Inscriptions (30
min)

International Quranic Studies Association

11/21/2014
4:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Room: Room 23 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)Keynote Lecture
Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston, Presiding
Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston, Introduction (10 min)
Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universitt Berlin
Quranic Studies and Historical-Critical Philology. The Qurans staging, penetrating, and
eclipsing Biblical tradition (45 min)
Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria (BC), Respondent (20 min)

International Quranic Studies Association

11/21/2014
5:15 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 24 A (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Reception
Quranic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics (IQSA)
11/22/2014
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Room: Room 24 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: The Quran and Justice: How Removable are the Contradictions?

Gabriel Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, Presiding

Daniel Madigan, Georgetown University, Respondent
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg
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The Quran on Black and White: Exploring Possible Traces of Race and Racism in Tafsir (20
min)
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Muslima Theology and Relational Quranic Hermeneutics (20 min)
Karen Bauer, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Interpreting away the Quran: Hermeneutical Strategies for Reconciling Text and Values (20
min)
Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago
Approaching the Qurans Contradictory Statements on ahl al-kitab (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)

International Quranic Studies Association

11/22/2014
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Room: Room 1 B (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Mentorship Lunch (Details TBA)

The Quran: Historical Context, Manuscripts, and Material Culture (IQSA)

11/22/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 24 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Panel 1: Historical Context and Quran Manuscripts
Keith Small, London School of Theology, Presiding
Franois Droche, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
MS R38 from Kairouan, Tunisia and Its Umayyad Context (20 min)
Daniel Brubaker, Rice University
Manuscript and Tradition: Exploring Scribal Alterations in Early Qurans in View of the
Qiraat and Masahif Literature (20 min)
Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford
Early Quranic Manuscripts from the Muslim West: A Typological Survey (20 min)
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Nuria Martnez-de-Castilla-Muoz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Sixteenth-Century Spanish Translations of the Quran: The Almonacid de la Sierra
Atelier (20 min)
Discussion (50 min)

The Quran and the Biblical Tradition (IQSA)

Joint Session With: The Quran and the Biblical Tradition (IQSA), Syriac Literature and
Interpretations of Sacred Texts
11/22/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 24 B (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme:The Quran and Christian Oriental Traditions
Holger Zellentin, University of Nottingham, Presiding
Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America
The Suhuf of Abraham and Moses (25 min)
Abdulla Galadari, Masdar Institute
The Camel Passing through the Eye of the Needle: A Comparison between the Quran, the
Greek Gospels, and Tatians Syriac Diatessaron (25 min)
Cornelia B. Horn, Catholic University of America
Parallel Structures, Polemical Interpretations: An Intertextual Approach to Jesus Miracles
in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Normative and Interpretive Texts (25 min)
Nicolai Sinai, Oxford University
The Eschatological Kerygma of the Early Quranic Surahs in light of Syriac Literature (25
min)
Paul Neuenkirchen, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The Quranic Vision Pericopes in light of a Christian Apocrypha (25 min)

The Quran and the Biblical Tradition (IQSA)

11/23/2014
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room: Room 24 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
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Theme: Bible, Quran, and Jewish Traditions

Cornelia Horn, Catholic University of America, Presiding
Hamza M. Zafer, University of Washington
Jonah and the Ninevites: Prophecy to Communal Outsiders in the Quran (25 min)
Emad Botros, McMaster Divinity College
The Recalcitrant Prophet: Jonah Between the Quran and the Hebrew Bible Traditions (25
min)
Michael Pregill, Elon University
Another Brick in the Wall: The Intertwining of Biblical and Quranic Exegesis in Islamicate
Midrash (25 min)
Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion (California Branch)
Shabbat Violation in Quranic Discourse (25 min)
Holger Zellentin, University of Nottingham
The Quran and Rabbinic Judaism: Mecca and Medina between Palestine and
Babylonia (25 min)
Business Meeting (30 min) All IQSA members should attend!

Quranic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics (IQSA)

11/23/2014
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Room: Room 24 B (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Quranic Hermeneutics: Diversity Beyond Muslim/Non-Muslim Binaries
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University, Presiding
Clare Wilde, University of Auckland
Contemporary Echoes of Early Christian Arabic Approaches to the Quran (20 min)
Sayeh Meisami, University of Toronto
Quranic Hermeneutics and Islamic Philosophy: A Study of Ibn Sinas Commentary on Surat
al-Falaq in Comparison with His Philosophical Writings on the Problem of Evil (20 min)
David R. Vishanoff, University of Oklahoma
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Reenchanting the Quran: Hermeneutical Applications of the Ashari Concept of Gods

Eternal Speech (20 min)
Yusuf Rahman, State Islamic University Jakarta Indonesia
The Indonesian Muslim Responses to the Use of Hermeneutics in the Study of the
Quran (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)
Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria (BC), Respondent (10 min)

The Quran and the Biblical Tradition (IQSA)

Joint Session With: The Quran and the Biblical Tradition (IQSA), Quran and Biblical Literature
11/23/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room 24 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Bible and Quran: Confirmation, Conversation, Conflict
John Kaltner, Rhodes College, Presiding
Ashoor Yousif, University of Toronto
Claiming the Claimed: Islamic Exegesis of Biblical Prophecies During the Abbasid
Period (30 min)
Salah Mahgoub Edris, Cairo University
The Christian Interpretation of the Quran in Syriac Literature (30 min)
Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
The Quranic Terminology of the Biblical Tradition (30 min)
Carol Schersten LaHurd, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
The Academy vs. the Grassroots: Cognitive Dissonance on Interfaith Dialogue (30 min)
Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Teaching Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran to Undergraduate English Majors and
Elective Students (30 min)

Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Quranic Corpus (IQSA)

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11/23/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 24 C (Upper level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Themes and Rhetorical Tools in the Quran
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida, Presiding
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, University of Groningen, Presiding
D.S. Adnan Majid, University of California-San Diego
Virgins of a Virginal Paradise: The Use of Synecdoche in Surah Rahman (18 min)Discussion (5
min)
Thomas Hoffmann, Kbenhavns Universitet
Delivering the Quran: Metaphors of Quranic Maternality and Natality (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Devin Stewart, Emory University
Anomalous Rhyme-Words in the Quran and Their Implications (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Break (10 min)
Vanessa De Gifis, Wayne State University
The Economy of Excellence: A Thematic Study of Fadl in the Quran (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Andrew G. Bannister, Melbourne School of Theology
Retelling the Tale: A Computerized Oral-Formulaic Analysis of the Quran (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Carl Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Respondent (25 min)

Quran Seminar (IQSA)

11/24/2014
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: AB (Level 3 (Aqua)) Hilton Bayfront (HB)
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Theme: Surah 74 and Q 18:60102

Tommaso Tesei, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Presiding
Participants will discuss together the two selected Quranic passages.
Mehdi Azaiez, University of Notre Dame, PanelistGerald Hawting, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Panelist
Thomas Hoffmann, Kbenhavns Universitet, Panelist
Daniel Madigan, Georgetown University, Panelist
David Penchansky, University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN), Panelist
Gabriel Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, Panelist
Stephen Shoemaker, University of Oregon, Panelist
Tommaso Tesei, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida, Panelist

Quran Seminar (IQSA)

11/24/2014
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: AB (Level 3 (Aqua)) Hilton Bayfront (HB)
Theme: Surahs 19 and 88
Mehdi Azaiez, LabexResmed/KU Leuven, Presiding
Participants will discuss together the two selected Quranic passages.
Mehdi Azaiez, University of Notre Dame, Panelist
Gerald Hawting, School of Oriental and African Studies, Panelist
Thomas Hoffmann, Kbenhavns Universitet, Panelist

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Daniel Madigan, Georgetown University, Panelist

David Penchansky, University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN), Panelist
Gabriel Reynolds, University of Notre Dame, Panelist
Stephen Shoemaker, University of Oregon, Panelist
Tommaso Tesei, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida, Panelist

Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Quranic Corpus (IQSA)

11/24/2014
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room 17 B (Mezzanine level) San Diego Convention Center (CC)
Theme: Detecting Ring Patterns: Insights into the Qurans Structure and MeaningThis panel is
dedicated to the emerging field of Semitic Rhetoric/Ring Composition theory applied to the
Quran.
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida, Presiding
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, University of Groningen, Presiding
Dalia Abo-Haggar, Harvard University
Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Quran (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Giuliano Lancioni, Universit degli Studi Roma Tre and Raoul Villano, Universit degli Studi
Roma Tre
The Self-Similar Koran (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
AbdelMadjid Benhabib, University of Tlemcen Algeria
Lexical Repetition in Noahs Discourse in the Quran (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Break (10 min)
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Raymond Farrin, American University of Kuwait

Ring Structure in Sura 9: Repentance Emphasized (18 min)
Discussion (5 min)
Rick Oakes, North-West University (South Africa)
The Semitic Rhetoric of Surat al-Nisa 153-162 Imparts Meaning to Shubbiha in Aya 157a (18
min)
Discussion (5 min)
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, University of Groningen, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (15 min)

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